em·met ( m  t)n. Archaic An ant. [Middle English emete, from Old English  mete.] |
emmet [ˈɛmɪt]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) Brit an archaic or dialect word for ant
2. Cornish dialect a tourist or holiday-maker
[Old English ǣmette ant; related to Old Norse meita, Old High German āmeiza, Gothic maitan]
Emmet [ˈɛmɪt]
n
(Biographies / Emmet, Robert (1778-1803) M, Irish, POLITICS: nationalist) Robert. 1778-1803, Irish nationalist, executed for leading an uprising for Irish independence
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| Noun | 1. |  emmet - social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workershymenopter, hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopterous insect - insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing family Formicidae, Formicidae - ants Monomorium pharaonis, pharaoh ant, pharaoh's ant - small red ant of warm regions; a common household pest little black ant, Monomorium minimum - tiny glossy black ant; nests outdoors but invades houses for food carpenter ant - ant that nests in decaying wood in which it bores tunnels for depositing eggs fire ant - omnivorous ant of tropical and subtropical America that can inflict a painful sting Formica rufa, wood ant - reddish-brown European ant typically living in anthills in woodlands slave ant - any of various ants captured as larvae and enslaved by another species slave-maker, slave-making ant - an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants bulldog ant - any of the large fierce Australian ants of the genus Myrmecia |
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